Who Are The Homeless in Santa Rosa County?

1,036 Santa Rosa County students were identified as McKinney-Vento eligible at the end of the 2022-2023 school year

104 were identified as McKinney-Vento eligible Unaccompanied Youths

They are the families and individuals who lack a fixed, adequate nighttime residence. For example:

  • A family lives in a campsite, emergency or transitional shelter or abandoned in hospitals.

  • A family temporarily lives with more than one family in a house, mobile home, or apartment because the family doesn't have a place of their own due to economic hardship.

  • A family lives in a car, park, public space, abandoned building, substandard housing, bus, or train station.

  • A family lives in a motel or hotel due to lack of alternate accommodations.

  • A family lives in a location not ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodations (e.g., abandoned building, storage facility, etc.)

  • A child/youth in a home is an unaccompanied youth (youth not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian).

  • A family living in substandard housing (lacks electricity, water, heating)